Agronomist's top tips to beat the drought

By Bob Freebairn
Updated July 1 2019 - 3:37pm, first published 3:26pm
Will Freebairn with children Audrey and Shaun check tropical grass Premier digit responding to light early January rain falling on our property in 2019. Tropical grass played a vital role in our drought management.
Will Freebairn with children Audrey and Shaun check tropical grass Premier digit responding to light early January rain falling on our property in 2019. Tropical grass played a vital role in our drought management.

While lots of strategies are important for drought management, in our case nothing was more critical than the approximately 50 per cent of the property established to tropical grasses and 20 per cent sown late summer/early autumn to winter fodder crops.

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